Jan. 23, 2023 | LITTLE ROCK — After a nationalist search, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s person named Jason Williams, Psy.D., M.S.Ed. to pb their enactment unneurotic to amended pediatric intelligence and behavioral wellness statewide.
Williams volition service arsenic the caller main of UAMS’ Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry successful the College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and arsenic Arkansas Children’s elder vice president and main intelligence and behavioral wellness officer, a recently created position.
Williams comes from Children’s Hospital Colorado, wherever helium served arsenic an subordinate prof of Psychiatry astatine the University of Colorado School of Medicine and arsenic the manager of operations successful the Pediatric Mental Health Institute.
“I americium thrilled that Dr. Williams has joined our enforcement enactment squad successful the Department of Psychiatry astatine UAMS, and that helium volition beryllium serving arsenic the archetypal Chief Mental and Behavioral Health Officer astatine Arkansas Children’s,” said Laura Dunn, M.D., seat of the Department of Psychiatry and manager of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute. “His extended acquisition successful children’s behavioral health, combined with his thrust for excellence, volition beforehand the overarching ngo of enhancing the behavioral wellness of Arkansas’ youth.”
With much than 20 years of acquisition successful the tract of intelligence health, Williams is known for his enactment astatine the local, regional, and nationalist level. He presently serves arsenic the seat of the Commission connected Accreditation for the American Psychological Association.
“Children are facing intelligence wellness crises successful Arkansas and nationwide. With Dr. Williams’ leadership, we volition make innovative ways to assistance them close wherever they live, larn and play,” said Rick Barr, MD, MBA, enforcement vice president and main objective and world serviceman of Arkansas Children’s. “Together with our partners statewide, helium volition assistance america make a healthier tomorrow, 1 wherever intelligence wellness attraction is prioritized truthful each children person unlimited opportunities to scope their potential.”
Williams received his bachelor’s grade from the University of California astatine Irvine and master’s and doctoral degrees from the California School of Professional Psychology successful Los Angeles. He completed an internship and postdoctoral grooming programme astatine the Children’s Hospital successful Los Angeles and worked astatine that instauration for 12 years anterior to his stint successful Colorado.
He has antecedently served arsenic president of the Colorado Psychological Association, seat of the Association of Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Internship Centers (APPIC) and seat of the Council of Chairs of Training Councils (CCTC).
About Arkansas Children’s — Arkansas Children’s is the lone wellness attraction strategy successful the authorities solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas’ much than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit enactment includes 2 pediatric hospitals, a pediatric probe institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and galore acquisition and outreach programs — each focused connected fulfilling a committedness to specify and present unprecedented kid health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report successful 7 pediatric specialties (2022—2023): Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology and Urology. Arkansas Children’s Research Institute provides an onsite probe situation for module and scientists of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences moving connected the Arkansas Children’s Hospital campus. To larn more, sojourn archildrens.org.
UAMS is the state's lone wellness sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a postgraduate school; a hospital; a main field successful Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas determination field successful Fayetteville; a statewide web of determination campuses; and 7 institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute connected Aging, Translational Research Institute and Institute for Digital Health & Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide wellness strategy that encompasses each of UAMS' objective enterprise. UAMS is the lone big Level 1 trauma halfway successful the state. UAMS has 3,240 students, 913 aesculapian residents and fellows, and 5 dental residents. It is the state's largest nationalist leader with much than 11,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who supply attraction to patients astatine UAMS, its determination campuses, Arkansas Children's, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu oregon uamshealth.com. Find america connected Facebook, Twitter, YouTube oregon Instagram.
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